Tag Archives: the future

Festival of the Horn, 2028

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Hatboy

A couple of years ago, as I was attempting to organise and invite people to my 40th birthday bash, I jokingly created a Facebook event for my 50th birthday party in the hopes that some of my more hopeless and cancellation-happy … Continue reading →

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The Last Days of Earth, a tiny sneak peek

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Hatboy

In this sneak peek at ORtW book 3, one of the characters' dogs eats a poisonous toad while the team is making its way through distant-future Far North Queensland. Or Faarn, as I have named it.@lucasthorn @tiermorte I hope I'm … Continue reading →

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35-year plan

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Hatboy

Day 48. 117 pages, 58,275 words. Nothing much to add again today, we have a busy ol’ day at Jumbo which should actually be lots of fun. Taking Wump to see the new Shaun the Sheep movie, and hopefully also … Continue reading →

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Official foretelling, take two

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Hatboy

Day 30. 69 pages, 33,380 words. This is not great, but it is not as terrible as it sounds either because I also wrote a whole mess of stuff for the rest of the series, as well as deleting a … Continue reading →

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MEFA opening night

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Hatboy

Day 15. 43 pages, 20,363 words. Last night, Mrs. Hatboy, Wump, Toop and I were treated to a highly entertaining and very enjoyable night at the Middle Eastern Film & Arts Festival in Helsinki. MEFA is taking place all weekend … Continue reading →

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What is the Internet?

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Hatboy

Day 64. 156 pages, 73,563 words. The other day, according to reports from Mrs. Hatboy, our four-year-old firstborn – who I have nicknamed ‘Wump’ to no real purpose here on this blog – asked Mrs. Hatboy The Question. Mrs. Hatboy … Continue reading →

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Torquis in Machina, Part 26

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Hatboy

The problem, I reflected later, was that there is never really any good or evil in the world. Even in a place like Xix, it just wasn’t something that could be divided so simply. The closer one got to textbook … Continue reading →

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Närbild

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Hatboy

On Monday night, Mrs. Hatboy and Toop were on TV. Watch here (sorry, seems to be no subtitles, you’ll just have to learn Swedish). Fulliautomatix, Vitalstatistix, and, uh, Panacea? And Impedimenta? I don’t know. Well, it was on a Swedish … Continue reading →

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